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Posted on 12/27/2007 5:33:50 AM PST by Slapshot68
"A new book claims to have definitive evidence of a long-suspected technological crime — that Alexander Graham Bell stole ideas for the telephone from a rival, Elisha Gray.
In "The Telephone Gambit: Chasing Alexander Graham Bell's Secret," journalist Seth Shulman argues that Bell — aided by aggressive lawyers and a corrupt patent examiner — got an improper peek at patent documents Gray had filed, and that Bell was erroneously credited with filing first."
(Excerpt) Read more at tech.yahoo.com ...
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Not news. This has been debated for more than a century now.
Oftentimes great discoveries are attributed to the guy who presents them best.
Do you ever use the Search Feature? Why not?
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